The goal of this paper is to identify key issues concerning the nature of competition in health care markets and its … topic. The theoretical literature in economics on competition and quality, the theoretical literature in health economics on … this topic, and the empirical findings on competition and quality in health care markets are surveyed and their findings …

reduce the scope for competition between hospitals …

of market structure on quality of health care. The paper then moves on to consider competition in health insurance …

implications of these changes for the nature and consequences of competition in health care markets. In this paper, we summarize … industry for competition, efficiency, and public policy. As will become apparent, this area offers a number of intriguing …

effect on non-contractible quality. The model is applied to understanding the costs and benefits of prison privatization …

, quality competition came more in the form of costs that vary with hotel size, and less in the form of costs that are fixed …